EVITA Revival on the way?

American Repertory Theater, in association with Shakespeare Theatre Company, will produce a new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita May 14 through July 16, 2023 at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square. Sammi Cannold will direct. Casting will be announced at a later date. Following its run at A.R.T., the production will play at STC in Washington, D.C. as part of its 2023/24 season.

Solea Pfeiffer was an absolute knockout in Sammi Cannold's production of Evita at City Center back in 2019. After seeing her tour de force performance, I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

Ehhh...

Can we get Lea as Eva?

Eden Espinosa and Ben Crawford were incredible in a Nashville regional production of Evita in 2016. Would love to see either or both get the chance to do it again.

bwayphreak234 said: "I loved this at City Center. Solea Pfeiffer was a thrilling Eva. I also really enjoyed Cannold's direction, and I can't wait to see what she does with creating a more realized production."

Agreed, Solea was excellent. I’d love to see her do it again, this time as the full role. (I thought Maia Reficco was great too, just don’t see the need for or benefit of splitting the role)

If any revival of EVITA gets to New York, it should absolutely be Jamie Lloyd's production from Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, that starred Samantha Pauly, Trent Saunders, & Ektor Rivera. It was MIND BLOWING.

JSquared2 said: "etimer13 said: "Eden Espinosa and Ben Crawford were incredible in a Nashville regional production of Evita in 2016. Would love to see either or both get the chance to do it again."



The 2 of them put together would sell about a dozen tickets.

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I'm not sure about a dozen, but they'd sell at least one.

No idea if either of these things mean anything, but Rachel Zegler posted the Playbill announcement on her Instagram stories, and, over the past couple of days, she had an exchange on Twitter where she replied with Evita lyrics.

https://www.instagram.com/stories/rachelzegler/2987390474696732173/

https://twitter.com/rachelzegler/status/1599604779453272064

Updated On: 12/6/22 at 04:55 PM

Kad said: "I hope Cannold has abandoned the wholly pointless split casting of Eva that she deployed in the Encores staging."

Oh, it will stay. Everyone around knows of her massive ego.

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "While everyone's running around calling it "wholly pointless," I'd just like to remind everyone that Hal Prince strongly considered castingthreeEvas for different parts of her life. Cannold's choice is not unprecedented, and frankly, it makes me wonder why she is taking such stick for it. (I'm not surprised that she is -- this is BWW, after all -- but I do wonder what in particular makes a modified version of the same idea Hal had so terrible. Couldn't be that the director's a young female upstart, could it?)"

I didn’t know that fact about Prince’s concept… which he did not actually go through with. Something that didn’t happen can hardly be a precedent.
I actually saw the Encores production and no, it did not work. it was pointless as executed by Cannold. Implying this is bias against female directors based on not well known trivia about the show is an absurd reach.

Updated On: 12/6/22 at 10:47 PM

I thought it was phenomenal at Encores. Praying this transfers and we'll get the thrilling, visionary revival Broadway deserves.

Oof that City Center production was terrible. Amatuerish.